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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W. S, D. WIKLE & CO., Proprietors.
CEDAltTOWN, GEORGIA* SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1876.
VOLUMfc II. NUMBER 18.
TIM ELY TOPICS.
Tiiaodkis Fairbanks ami Charles
F. 1 'bickering nre the only Americans
who have over accepted the nonsensical
I '.nlt 1 i-h title of Sir.
TllKY have just caught a full grown
•lo.-s? Pomoroy in France. lie was taken
in the net of killing a little girl, and the
remains of three missing children were
found in his house.
Sinuku, the sewing-machine manufac
turer, died, leaving an estate worth nine
teen millions of dollars. Just think how
many |*N»r women worked themselves al
most to death to raise each sixty dollars
to make that man too rich t</lie’heal thy.
Meat has advanced rapidly within the
past few days. It is not due to scarcity,
to the HjH'cuhitivo spirit prevailing
< long the capitalists of the north and
west. At the same time cotton is going
down, and southern farmers are com
pelled to huy meat which they could
hotter have raised at home.
When we have lmilt a double track
railway from Texas to California, com
pleted Fad's jetties, reclaimed the Mis-
sissippi river alluvial liottoms, estab
lished direct trade ln’twcrn Liverpool and
the Suith Atlantic States, and admitted
Cuba as a State into the I'nion—then
look out for a prosperity in America that
would make the national debt a mere
• A woman inUaltim.
but having no home
I (ought jnorphiiie at .
drank it as she walked
kept c
and a
, desiring death,
n which to die
lrug store, and
the street. Hhe
the drug began to take effect,
d of Utys, sup|swing that her
staggering was t
followed after
traversing soyei
the boys threw
way she died.
esiiltof intoxication,
At length, after
streets, she fell, and
ltd oil her. In that
One of the provisions of the new con
stitution proposed for North Carolina is the
following: No person who shall deny the
being of God, or the truth of the Christian
religion, or the divine authority of the Old
or New Testament, or shall hold religious
principles Incompatible with the freedom or
safety of the State, shall he capable of hold
ing ;
ofllce
r prolil
■ promises i
Hint. Uar
Of* |s .?
t'altDiN’AI. Masnino recently ad
dressed u meeting of Roman (’ntholies in
Loudon, held on the cite of the new ca
thedral, which, it is stated,will cost one
million live hundred thousand dollars,
ami will Is* one hundred years in build
ing. The cardinal remarked that Noah
was one hundred and twenty years in
liuil.ling Uio ark, an.l Unit. In- ilu.iiglit,
should prevent the founders and builders
of the now cathedral from giving away to
dc*|M)iidency.
I mi: Rhode Island authorities will not
allow financial aid to 1m- extended to the
Full river operatives. This might Im- *-\
|H*cted in this state, when* tin* mill-
owners control the state government and
own nearly everything. They feu
the rebellious spirit of the Fall
men might extend to their Imrdci
another “ Dorr rebellion” might
Universal suflrage does not exist ii
Island. It is necessary for the white hi
Isircr to have n property qualifie.i
Moony hrought over with him from
Lngland several blooded sheep and other
stock, which he promises to present to his
granger friends for the improvement of
their Hooks. His ('hieago friends are giv
ing to secure the exjiosUion building for
bim when In* comes to evangelize that
city. In I'hiladelphia. $100,000 have
las-n raised to defray the ex|ienses of his
meetings there, and a building i« to In-
erected especially for tin- purpo-e.
This experiment of shipping jienehe*
from this country to England on the re
frigerator plan, lum at length proved suc
cessful. A steamer from New York has
succeeded in landing peaches- ot Ismdou
and Liverpool in good condition. A few
weeks ago two thousand five hvnclred
• rates of fruit were shipped on an experi
ment, on a vesrs-1 of the i'hiladelphia line,
to Liverpool, hut owing to the insuffi
ciency of ice, the whole lot was worthless
on reaching England. The Queen had
cent n special messenger to make pur
chases of the fruit for the royal family,
and there was much dieipjiointmetit over
the failure. The recent success will open
up a new channel of trad*
the civil department within this
Tho city of Mobile had in
a large amount of city scrip
pnv bv that city, which circulate very gener
ally in every department. The United Slates
revenue authorities undertook to collect ten
per cent, penalty of Mobile for circulating
this money, and certain penalties and dam
ages besides. Col. .!. I.iltle Smith went to
Washington to investlgme.the mutter aiiilMi.
Pratt, the (Niimiiissioiier of Internal Revenue,
decided that tin- Mobile scrip was not subject
to the ten per cent. tax.
FOREIGN.
The Swedish steamer L. .1. linger, run
ning between I.ulteek ami Copenhagen, was
burned in the ilultie. Twenty-four passen
gers ami eleven of the crew perished. The
steamer win a small one and was built in 1S6H
S-veral sanguinary engagements have
taken place in Ilentegovlniti b-twocn a body
of I ,200 lusergents and l.ooo Turks. The
first engagemoiit was fouglit on the 2X||i ulti
mo near Klepantilza, and two engagements
followed on die 20th and 3nih near I’mrnp-
larizza. The insurgents lost fifty-six men
mid the estimated loss of the Turks ."•on. On
account of their inferior numheni the iiistir-
gent a were obliged to retreat.
MtBCGLLANEOUS.
Tho fust mull service is voted by the
p*(st-ofllee dep artluentade ei dcdsticci >>•.
The public debt statement shows a iv-
durtion of over three millions nml a half dur-
The comptroller of currency re|H>rt»
that s:i national hanks have lu-en orgaui/.ed
since the passage of the net of .Ian. H, 1876,
with a capital of nine million, two hundred
and thirty-four thousand dollars, to which cir
culation has been issued amounting to $:t,023-
7do. Total amount of additional currency is
sued since tile passage of the act is $10,218,-
Pennsylvania,At 11,000 to West Viruinia,f
• Ohio,
Indiana $IO0,(HK)
amount $7,700,000 Ims be
York, .-fern:,,nonl.v Miinmi
'andinn, $• 11,000by lamlsiumt;
Missouri, $1 ,*<1*1,1X10 by In
ishi by Illinois. *70.1,noo lo
I haraeleristic** of the .Servian People.
They are a tall, well-formed race, free,
hardy, nml active. They are brave, per
severing, ami hospitable, cunning
j ptirsti
a fully
appreciate tin- advantages of bankruptcy.
*f their prnj»-
with
r wives and relnti*
however, i* owing t«» the state of the law
on the subject, which has been pur|»osely
left ineomplete in this respect with a
view to despoiling the common enemy,
the Turk, whom they hate with a most
wholesome and wholesale hatred, which
they introduce on every pi—ihle occa
sion. For intsance, when the citadel
and town of Itelgrade wen- evacuated by
the Turk-.otieof the Turkish stipulations
was that t Im* mosques and minarets should
not be destroyed. This stipulation' was
I bv the Servians, but at the
• time ill (possible
opt-
hclp them to fall into d<
idloining, and thus prolceting
fror
atlier
Ii ATK8T N EWS SIJMMARY.
WIST
Oil. Blanton’s cxjicdition to the had
lands of Dakota has visited portions of the
country hitherto unexplored, between the
Uheyenne ami White Earth rivers, ohtniiiing
fossils of extinct animal-*.
The population of the -late of Minne
sota bv the census this year nearly oil officinl
and tin- remainder estimated is-*i!(7,018,against
I oient gl<
j Dusl-.aw
Irnrs, t
i» t< ll the old, ..III story
iilji-rhai nail tlilmt
y nfterdny sin- tolled
n Itli her nuitc ln«Ui enrtli hi
Hat scarcely Ii ml she |ilni-«s|
a vvli'kisi hiia.l nr clinm-u laid wa
Hilt still her heart she kept,
And lyllisl attain, amt Iasi nl«lil, li.nr
1 lisikisl—and Ini I lire© llllle owalloMs i
Within thecaiIh-made walls.
WIril truth I- here, <• limn 1
Till: PATRONS OF III SIIANORV.
VV lull ii lllllliiM noil » Hull' iil'Ui aii|i«'i i an-
The uoiniiintionof Mr. Piolette by the
democrats of Pennsylvania for the oflleo
of state treasurer, attracts much atten
tion to grangerism, as he is known to be
tin* most prominent leuderof tho patrons
in that state, ami an incorruptible re
former. lint, to one.who keeps himself
thoroughly informed ii|*on the progress
of the order of pat rous of hushamlrv, the
nomination of Mr. Piolette, is only one
among thousands of signs of its rapid
growth.
Tho progress of the co-operative move
ment in England, is (minted at as a won
der; hut that has been about forty years
in maturing, whilegrangerisin has swelled
to its present proportions in ulintiL three
years. The truth will be apparent to any
one who carefully e.xamim-sthe fuels that
■ |M>wcr is arising
llllei
, therefore
r be
California is sending two car louds of
pears to tin- east every day, nod the win-
guinc Californians hope that in a few years
they will realize more money from their ex
ports of fruit than from' their exports of
*V*“-
SOUTH.
The fund for an equestrian statue of
(m u. lx-ent Richmond novvnim.mil* to £.'0,.
A committee will be appointed to go to
Washington and urirently appeal to congress
to assist ill rebuilding tin- li-veea of lh«- Mis
sissippi valley.
The number of cattle shipped ordriven
pulled down, earth
the foundations and ho on, till, at the
present moment, they are all crumbling
youth, who faithfully |ierform their
small share toward accomplishing tin-
final ruin.
• ■ i- .. . Rut whilst their patriotism and hatred
iieach- of the Turk are kept alive bv the le-
1 1 '- ulitions, and stories of the nn-
ies of the Servian empire under
and, it must also be said, their
• to their no less hated neigli-
e Hungarians, whom at one
time they even forsook to join the Turk
ish alliance, there runs a strong vein of
that sound common sense through the
Servian character that sceins peculiar to
mrrtculturnl imputations everywhere.
They like to see their wav clear Ik-fore
them, and. having once done *o, follow
it with a dojfgcd pertinacity, very difter-
ent from the basii-iu-the-paii energy of
the Latin races. Thus they set ulniut
with a will onihe improvements of their
road*; in every village then* is a well-
built school, an inn with first, second and
third ela.-w accommodations, and a hos-
pital deHtiiififlyfijr the cure of the large
imiiiiIkt of paticihs mi fieri rig from the
e flee Is id' the diseases they accuse the
Turks of having introduced into the coun-
uther dogmatical and prohlcinut-
. far.
Over 10,000 will be wintered on thcWachita.
Mrs. J. E. IT Stuart, the widow o:
the renowned confederate general of cav
alry, has become an instructor in tie- South
eru female college, Richmond, Va.
ical assertion, I
Justice, ajiart from such vagaries 08
those alwvc mentioned, and without ref
erence to foreigners, is fairly administered,
and their morality—certainly their hon
esty and freedom from tendency to theft
and pilfering are (icrhans higher than
that of most agricultural communities.
They are excessively fond of music and
poetry ; The prince s bind at Itelgrade
would bear comparison with any other
military kind : and they are great admir
ers of natural beauty. Hut all their
virtues are considerably dashed—for the
foreigners at loast—by their overween
ing conceit and national vanity, which
fully equal the Spaniards.
A It In.
Ii the fact is a disagreeble one
to some cla.ss<-siif'non-producers, it is none
the less undeniable that the rugged health
of the movement arises from its direct
hearing ii|«in tIn- |mckets of the members.
While there is much said in granger cor
respondence iitanit the social features of
their work- -the picnics and other festiv
ities the chief burden is concerning the
wholesale buying and sidling they have
done through the machinery of the order.
This is, of course, different in difli-reut
states. In the west, u large part of the
gain is from the wholesale disposal of
grain, and it* handling through grange
elevators. In the south, planters have
saved large sums by using the grange
agents in disposing of their cotton.
'The
ewspu|
lake the
agencies inform os that
with a .nominal eaj»ilal of
papers nrta-
thc
• the
to Is- largely disposed to
tin*
title*
side of tile
mg t.
least,
as taking the sides of (lie grange,
hcarsal of the most prominent grange
organs by states will do much to open
flic eyes of some people to the magnitude
of tins movement.
It is an interesting fact that scarcely
papers are published tins
\lleghany Mounta ins, and
there are very many more in the south
than in New England. In all down east
we find no manifest grange organ, and
only two or three public, workingmen's
papers. It i* -aid that many of the mill
owners will discharge a hand who per
sists in taking a paper that is devoted
exclusively to the interests of that class.
All these grunge papers arc known to
be earnest advocates of the patrons of
husbandry, hut there are scores more
not thoroughly identified with the order,
but working for it. In fuel it is getting
customary for nearly all the western
country papers to devote a column or
two to grange matters.
When •
truly marvelous advance, for whereas a
lozen years ago writersnnd ^leakers were
advocating in vain to the most advanced
communities the benefits of co-operation,
here now were thousands of the old con
servative Pennsylvania Dutch fanners
throwing thin selves heartily Into the
wmk of an order, the chief feature of
which is co-operative Inlying and selling
hv producers.
EMINt'NTI.Y PRACTICAL.
It i* noticeable that through the long
pieAiic stories in the Friend dwell mostly
on the crowds that attended this and that
festivity, and tell rather wlmt they had
to eat, than what the speech makers said,
they usually conclude with a very prac
tical statement about the thousands of
dollars' worth of goods bought by the
giiQige through its agents. The Pennsyl
vanians now have a state purchasing
agent, with a large store in Philadelphia,
which is filled from top to liottom with
samples, for the benefit of visiting pat
rons who wish to buy through the agent
at wholesale rates. The majority of tIn-
order in those parts, seem toMelight in
this arrangement, and their letters are
all aglow with the fine bargains they
luiVe made, and the thousands of dollars
they have saved in this way.
It is of small use to present glittering
generalities in support of the statement
(hut the grange is really the great rising
|Miwer in the laud, which many (nitrons
say it is. Fortunately facts'and figures
are not wanting. It is a pretty good sub
stantiation of the assertion that the
grangers number a million and u half, to
iind that the merely nominal sum paid by
the subordinates to the national grange
gave that body in 1X7-1 an income. offUlfi,-
• IS1. Its receipts have so increased be
yond all calculation, that some new
means of using the excess must Ik* de
cided upon, or else the fees must Ik- re
duced. In view of such prosperity, it is
almost (sissiblo to. believe what one of
the organs of the order says about the
pecuniary benefits accruing io members,
viz.: that they have saved $21,000,000
through Its machinery already.
WHAT THEY A III-: I Mil N't I.
A meeting of state agents of the orde
was held at IndiunaiHdis, in August. In
diana, Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin,
Kentucky nail Iowa were represented.
They all report that business lias grown
wonderfully in the past year.
The watchfulness of tho order over all
the interests of the people, is seen io the
fact that in Illinois the stale grange has''
made arrangements to fiirnjsh country
schools with cheap desks, ehairsand tables,
while in a certain California county the
putronsap|>Qintodu committee to examine
into the assessment rolls, and they have
ulrcudyVnrreeted some notable cusch of
iindervaliiatioii.
The Wisconsin grangesluiveesf iblishcd
forty-one eo-operat ivcunsocial ions rbr* , *'l|-
Ing goods and manufacturing,and I wenty-
niu«* insurance companies, all nourishing
and representing capital to theiimmintof
$•1,000,000.
The three graotre insurance companies
of Muscatine and Cedar counties. Iowa,
carryover $1,000,000 of risks. An ex
ample of the way in which the patrons
are investing in halls and stores is seen
in Decatur county, Iowa. There they
have bought the I lousier Hall at Crceiis-
hurg for $10,000, and will use the lower
part lor a general store, and the hall for
meetings. There arc ‘2,002 subordinate
granges in Missouri, and 2,001 in In
diana. Iowa use to lead in numbers, and
she IiiiA now, in proportion to population,
a larger number than any other state in
tin* union.
The state lecturer of Kansas illusl rates
the profit of grange shipping warehouses
by instancing that of Florence, Ks.,
which was erected on a basis of $ 120, has
cleared $1,000, and is not. otic cent in
debt. The patrons of nine counties in
the southwestern part of the same state
have united in a commercial agency at
Wichita, and their agent informs millers
and grain men that they have over two
million bushels of wheat to dispose of.
That, sort of work, kept Up honestly and
wisely, would put a considerable chock
upon grain speculation in cities.
A ii instance of one of tin- various ways
in which factories are being established
under grange auspices i-> found in Mis
souri. \ i'i-s|ioiisihle Iirm invests at
least $10,000 in a factory at Macon, upon
condition that granger* furnish $6,000
$10 po
isidc
the fad that reli
gion-. Masonic, and other mutual aid
societies, established for many years in
this country, only support two or three
organs apiece; it Is-coim-s apparent that
an order that is already Mipporting and
given tone to several score pa|>crs must
have a tremendous membership and a
strong hold upon the [Kipulnr affections.
TIiere is a singular difference between
organs of the movement in different
state-. In Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,Kansas,
and Missouri, they are so taken up, as a
general thing, with letters, speeches, and
arguments in favor of greenback currency,
that they have not room for many Orange
particulars. In the northwest, the origi
nal scat of the movement, they are still
hard at work in their unti-monopily figet
with railroads. Indeed, the people of
this country, as a general rule, seem It
think that grangerism simply means wm
against railroad extortions. In I’ennsyl
vania, on the other hand, the Farmer’i
Friend has been all summer forcibly illus
trating the practical character of the
I'ennsylvaniu Dutch and Quaker-. Its
columns have been full of letters describ-
j ing the picnics that have been held all
' over the state. These letters showed a
boa
at
: per
payable in implements at cost. Tine
propose to manufacture plows, eultiva
tors, hoes, rakes and other implement!-
and the object of getting grangers to tak
stock is to insure their good will.
There are (107 granges in Arkansas
The secret nay of the stale grange says
“ From every part of the state account
are cheering; every grange expects l
fill op this fall." The number of mem
* the deaf
as the last
•plied the
“ •!uilly or not guilty 7"
The man held his hand to hi* -
replied:
“ You'll have to talk up loud.'
" <fiiilty or not! ” yelled the
“ You’ll have to s|»euk up!” r
“ Come here.” called the court, crook
ing his finger.
(idling the prisoner where lie could
yell in hi* ear, he continued :
"I can't fool around mid Inird a
blood-vessel by straining my voice! (let
out o’ here!”
“ Of course— of course,” replied the
man, and lie got.
Mr*. Monroe being the only one to
go up, the boys made up a purse and
Uiught her a banana, and as she sat and
| ice led it they sang:
Ri sin t if ii I maid of tin- lee,
A WONDKRFl’L l AHRIC.
itlulioi-ale Ili-M-rlptloii nl' A. T. Na-nni-l'*
TV ii Tlimntniul llollm-t i*i-|m-1.
Among the niativ treasures owned bv
ho “merchant prince” is a magnificent
arpet, which was once intended to grace
the halls of royalty, having been manu
factured for the emperor Napoleon. Its
is about forty feet square. The cen
tre-piece, its most prominent object, occu
pying nearly one-half of the whole area,
represents a bountiful oval-shupcd picture
sot in a gold frame, and, suitably hung,
would at a distance lie easily mistaken
for an elegant painting.
Tho picture shows the Imrlxir, castle
and surrounding country of Marseilles.
Fram e. In the fore-ground one isoharmod
by the blue water and the stately ships
ai anchor; further hack, tho lmrlior and
ancient castle, rising gradually III its
magnificent whiteness against the green
foliage enveloping the base of the moun
tains which form the Imck-ground, and
lift their hoary heads into a blue sky,
finked with fleecy clouds. Napoleon’s
coat of arms surmounts the picture, and
a Latin motto, wrought in gold on a blue
ribbon-like ground, lies ball' unrolled at
the base.
Immediately surrounding this lovely
picture, in u bed of rich brown, is a gar
land of beautiful (lowers, much larger
than natural size, but so brilliant and
delicately and accurately represented
that it seems as If one might stoop and
lift the petals one from another. Out
side of' this garland, and serving as u
Isirder to the carpet, is a wreath formed
of over-lapping oak leaves ami acorns,
also in natural colors, their various shades
of green and brown iileudiug in exquisite
bounty.
lt is quite imjMissible to give an idea
of this wonderful fabric, which was made
with t he needles of poor women, who
wrought it ill sections and set it together
after the manner of the camel's hair
shawls. Its texture Is as delicate as a
silken robe, and no painter could portray
color.or detail with greater skill. It ac
tually cost $10,000 to make it. Mr.
Stewart saw it at tho i’uris oxposition,
and purchased it as a novelty to exhibit
to friends who visit his “uptown” store.
It has been suggested that an effort he
made to persuade Mr. Stewart to allow
it to be brought to Chicago and exhibited
at our exposition.
Old Age and Grcnl Work.
The men who have written oi
achievements of their fellow-moil have
dealt with most intcrcfll on the work of
the younger. Alexander and Napoleon
are constantly adduced as examples of
tho prodigious power of youth for exeeu
tipn. In literature, wo are told that Hy
mn died a youth; so of Clmttortoii nml
Kirko White, and many others of their
••lass. Indeed, every department
achievement is examined with great ei
and the result of all is, as many teach
iih, that the young do tho great work of
the world. Wo must Infer, Hi
that after a man has reached a certain
age say sixty he might as well lay
aside Ins implements of' labor, and stc|
aside for the young gentry to carry on
the great enterprises of life. An admit'-
able procedure this I Away with such
absurdity! When a mini has reached
his threescore he iH ready, if he has lie...
just l<> his mind and body, Io do the most
magnificent work of his whole life. Of
course hcciiuuoLdo this if ho bus wrenched
.Ids voice to pieces hv the time ho was
thirty, or addled his (train by stimulants
or laic night-work, or by any irregularity
in life and labor.
It is not difficult (o find among living
men most excellent examples of the
union of old age and brilliant achieve
ments. As Americans, we are habitually
reminded that our great men die young.
I In L we have abundant proofs to the con
trary. Our (Kiel Hryant is an aged man,
and the greatest literary triumph of his
life is his latest hook, the translation of
tin* Iliad. He has noon working ever
since he was a freshman at college, and
his editorials in the Evening Font would
make a small library in themselves. And
instead of his being an exception to the
law of longevity and labor, we claim that
lie illustrates wlmt would he the rule if
we only remained true to the require
ments of mind and body. Who is more
sprightly than llaneroft, now nearly
eighty, and yet who among us has done
more'’steady service for fifty years?
There are two dist inguished features of
the happy union of old age and good
work. ()ne of these is the repose in work
which distinguished the early period.
Too great rapidity of accomplishment in
youthful years has usually resulted in
premature cessation. Men who have
wrought with the intensity of our own
Roe in literature, or of Kunnnertleld in
preaching, have seldom lasted. They
They have jerked their organism into
hopeless disorder. There is a calmness in
work and work of a fearfully earnest
character, it may lie-which is requisite
for longund successful continuance. Wal
ter Hcotl might have lasted many years
longer had he not overwhelmed himself
in debt, and then written day and night,
at home and on his journeys, to keep the
wolf from his door. We find, as we ex
amine the inner life of the world’s long
workers, that they kept themselves free
from undue excitement, and yet never
forgot their enterprises.
Life Insurance.
The remarks made by Mr. Finch, Com
missioner of Insurance for Indiana, at
the National Convention of Insurance
Comissloncre and Hupcrintcmlc
support of
We
Rat take
i: of \
And r
nir Iicnith,
8nrnli Monroe. 1
Tin: school lward of London has
ranged that three hundred selected girls
shall he taught cookery by the teachers
of the National Training School for
Cookery at two centers—-one at Maryle-
bone and the other at Greenwich. The
.Society of Art- offers five free teacher-
ships of cookery to he competed for, and
the education department gives an an
nual grant to schools on behalf of each
girl taught cookery according to the
code.
pornry for the benefit of life insurance
companies to have policies in large mini
liers lapse by a failure to pay premiums;
but such surrender implies a lack ol con
fidence in the companies which in the
end must lie greatly to their detriment.
It is for the Interest of companies as well
tin* insured that the business he con
ducted on a sound and satisfactory basis,
lt is notorious that of late years most
impunics have become, with increasing
age and financial strength, more and
more regardless of the rights and interests
of policy-holders. They will escape the
payment of death claims whenever it is
possible; and tho court records through
out the country show how often they
will only make a settlement after pro
tracted litigation. People have grown
to he chary of entering into relations
with corporations which, while eager to
Insure a man’s life, mid prompt in de
manding the payment of premiums, will
take advantage of any slip to evade their
just responsibility. Men do not want to
Insure their lives for the purpose of leav
ing their families a legacy of litigation ;
does life insurance strike them as
being particularly desirable when, after
years of constant and punctual payments,
they may by a failure to pay one pre
mium lose all that they have already
paid. Nor is this the worst feature ot
the business. Life insurance companies,
howovor cautious they may he in accept
ing risks, take precious good care, after
the death of an insurer, that every tech
nicality in the policy shall he enforced.
very letter of t he bond must, he ad
hered to, and the companies in every
case take their own time in the settle
ment of death claims.
Mr. Finch makes a number of sugges
tions as to appropriate remedies for the
existing evils in connection with life in
surance which nre at least well worthy of
the ennsidernt ion of law-makers. It would
not lie a harsh requirement to insist that
all policies issued by life insurance com
panies shall bo absolutely lion-forfeitable.
The schedule of rates is made upon the
supposition that every policy-holder will
constantly keep up Ins policy; and it is
unjust to an insurer to provide for the
forfeiture of all premiums paid in ease of
any default. Companies who act on this
principle do not give life insurance; their
insurance is simply temporary, like fire
and marine insurance. Any man who
takes a life policy Is charged life rates
from the outset, and his representatives
ought to be entitled to some return if he
pays only one premium. It is reasonable
also, that companies should he held to a
performance ortlieprouiiseHof tlu-ir agents
and representatives. The proposition of
Mr. Finch, that companies he debarred
from making a defense for misstiitenientH
in the application after live annual pay
ments have liecn made, is perhaps too
broad* It is truo that after a premium
has been paid for five successive years the
presumption is strong that tho insurer
Inis acted in good faith; hut if fraud
he proven the company should have the
privilege of contesting tho claim. In
justice to all concerned, hoivovor, it
would lie only fair to provide that the
company should, in any case, make a re
turn to tho representatives of tho de
ceased of tho sum which the moneys he
had paid in would amount to at a fair
rate of interest at the time of his death,
with an allowance, perhaps, for company
expenses, and Hint they should he de
barred from making any defense in court
until they had made this tender.—De
troit Free /‘ram.
A Caii Load.—The following is esti
mated as a car load : 20,000 pounds, or
70 barrels of salt, 70 barrels of lime, 00
of flour, (10 of whisky, 200 sucks of Hour,
(1 cords of wilt wood, IX to 20 licud of
cattle, fit) to HO head of hogs, SO to 100
head of sheep, 0,000 foot of solid boards,
17,000 feet of siding, HI,000 feet of floor
ing, -10,000 of shingles, one-half less of
hard lumber, one-fourth less of green
lumber, one-tenth of joiHls, scant ling,
and all other large, limner, IM0 bushels
of wheat, 600 of corn, HH0 of oats, *100
of hurley, JJ00 of (lax seed, 11(50 of ap
ples, 480 of Irish (Hitatoc-s, .‘100 of sweet
potatoes, 1,000 bushels of bran.
resolution that there is a
for legislation for the protection
of policy-holders, were exceedingly
timely. The business of life insurance
within the past few years has grown to
enormous proportions. It requires hut
little argument to convince a prudent
man of the good policy of paying a small
hiiin annually for the purpose of securing
one large enough to be of benefit to his
family Til ease of his death, it is this
view of the matter which has swelled the
number of holders of life insurance |*ol-
ieies to hundreds of thousands; but there
is another view of it which is graudully
causing the people to lose faith—not so
much in the principle of life insurance,
as in the manner in which the business is
that
which is already
showing its effects in diminished receipts
for the Insurance companies and in a re
duction in the number of applieatians
for life policies. It may perhaps lie tern*
conducted—and the conscrj uen
A Romance of Cat
ii fisherman’s widow,
gone down in darkness
so had lie. Morning, i
paced the Iwii
-She
ek had
and tempest, and
non and night she
Ii for some memento of
the shining sands stretch
faraway. Hhe watched the sea birds
come and go. She heard the legend ot
the waves, and that was all. And yet it
wasn’t. Ono golden eve, with heaving
breast and starting oyo-halls, she espied a
Iwttlo dancing toward heron the Inllows.
It came within her reach. She clutched
it eagerly, chewed out the cork, put the
muzzle to her mouth, found not a drop
of whisky in it, and dropped like n life
less lump U)>on tho shore. And so they
found her, working the sand with her
A clergyman, meeting a little hoy
of his acquaintance, Haiti: “This is
quite a stormy day; my son?” “Yes,
sir,” answered the Imy, “this is quite a
wot rain.” The clergyman, thinking to
rebuke such hyperbole, asked if he knew
of any other than a wet rain. “ I never
knew personally of any other,” returned
the Isiy, “but 1 have read in a certain
small book of a time when it rained fire
and brimstone, and I guess that was not
a very wet rain.”
Specimens of old carved wainscoting
are in much inquest among collectors.
The Huron Adolphe de Kdothchild has
just bought for thirty thousand dollars
the magnificent wood-word of the Hotel
Hrctonvilliers, in the Isle Saint Louis;
mid Huron (iustay de Rothschild has
purchased all the wood-carving of tho
Hotel du B«»cre ('omr, Rue de yavcgucs,
for his new house in Paris. It furnishes
three rooms, one of which is worth
twelve thousand dollars.
Tiik postal-card factory at Springfield
is now making cards of the new pattern
at the rate of alniut h'ix hundred thou
sand a day; but, as there are still two
million seven hundred thousand in tho
vault, the public will not do any corres
ponding on the new cards until next
month. The new cards lias a liner sur
face than the old, and can he used for
copying with a press. It is heavier than
the old card, but is calendered so
throughly that it is somewhat thinner.
It is said that the Digger Indians are
never known to smile. They are grave
Diggers.
SMILE PROVOCATIVES.
Advice to old bachelors who dye their
hair—keep it dark. •
Why is a lovely young lady like a
hinge? Hccauso she is something to
a-dore.
Cl! till AN was once asked by one of his
brother judges, “ Do you see anything
ridiculous in tills wig?” “Nothing hut
tho head,” was the reply.
Mn. Henjamin CIinninh some time
ice presented tho poor of tho city of
Liverpool with £200, upon which a wag
wrote, “ A good H. (Sinning;”
Two Sharpers on ’change \Voro discuss
ing the merits of a third. “ Yes,” said
of them, winding up the conversa
tion, “he’d rather lie on sixty days’ time
than toll the truth for cash.”
A man in an American settlement,
who has been an inveterate smoker for
twenty years, has suddenly and perma
nently given up the practice. He
knocked the ashes of his pipe Into a keg
of blast ing powder.
“ Will you please insert this obiturny
notice?” asked an old gentleman of a
country editor. “ 1 make hold to ask it
because I know the deceased hud a great
ninny friends ulxiiit hero who’d he glad
to hear of his death.”
When a man goes to a quilting party
nlmut ton-timo. and sits down on a bull
of wieking with a long diirning-ncedle in
it, ho will think of more things con
nected with darning in a minute than ho
an mention in two hours.
A wooden soldier in front of a Troy
igar store is armed with an old army
musket. A few days ago the oiviut
loaded the gun, and the Ixiy who next
playfully snapped the look had never
been scared before in all his life.
“ Did anything about the defendant
strike your eye as remarkable?” asked
u judge of the plaint id* in a case of as
sault and buttery. “ It did, yor honor.
“And wlmt was it?” continued the
judge. “ His list, yer honor.”
An old lady visited a traveling circus.
She was delighted in every rcHpcet but
one. Speaking of the proprietor, she
said, “ He has everything in his show
that is on the bills but tho hippodrome.
I wonder where he keeps his hippodrome?
Is It dead?”
I.EAHA NT-LOOKING 1111111 stepped
the platform, -and, inhaling tho
fresh air, enthusiastically observed to tho
hnikcnmn, “ Isn’t this invigorating/
“ No, sir; it iH Ilarriaburg, said tho con
scientious employe. Tho pleasniit-look-
ing gentleman retired.
« Ann the Bpikenses hack?” inquired
Mrs. Stuyby, who hasn’t been out of
town this season. “Ycsm. replied
the cook, “and Mrs. Oadby got
home from Scarborough’s last night.
“Then Mary, you open the front shut
ters, and let’it'be known that we’ve got
buck too.”
There is a man in one of tho suburbs
who supports his family In handsome
style by simply tying an able-bodied cat
by tlio tail to a clothes-line every night,
and then going out in tho morning to
collect the soap, shaving-cuiis, brushes,
etc., thrown into the yard by angry
dwellers in adjoining houses.
A precocious youth devoured the
larger part of a glmyof ico-crcam at a sa
loon in this city a few evenings since, nml
his appetite not being appeased, caught a
couple of files, and mixing them with
the small quantity that remained, called
tho waiters attention to it, who immedi
ately furnished him with a second glass.
One day Moore, who had stolen a
lock of hair from a lady’s head, on being
ordered by her to make restitution,
caught up a pen and dashed off the fol
lowing lines:
Oil oiii* nolo* condition, love, I might ha led
With lids beautiful ringlet to part;
1 would gladly relinquish the tori; of your
Could I gain hut the key to your heart.
FACTS ANI) FANCIES.
—A New Haven Isiy stole some ap
ples and hid them under his shirt; then
a horse kicked him and the apples wived
his life—which is a story not to ho told
in .Sunday-school.
- -At one of the colored A. M. E.
churches of Columbus, (la., the other
night, a woman screamed. “ Glory I Isc
jest like soda water! Isc bllin’ over I
—Conclusion of the Inst Philadelphia
obituary poem; “Gone to meet her
favorite uncle who died nlxmt twelve
months since on her stepbrother b side."
—Tho Young Men’s Christian Associ
ation of Washington owes thirty-three
thousand dollars, and can’t nay it, and
the creditors can’t find anything but a
table, three chairs and a long-haired
young man to levy on.
—Tho worst case of selfishness that we
have ever been permitted to present to
the public emanated from a youth who
complained because his mother put a
bigger mustard-plaster on his younger
brother than she did on him, after they
had partaken a little too freely of melons
and nard apples.
—Tho government tombstones con
tractors put the name “Jones” on a
stone when a longer name won t lit, and
it is a little monotonous to walk through
sonic of the cemeteries and sec how
many of the .Tone’s family died for free
dom and sixteen dollars per month.
—All ingenious Englishman has in
vented a pulpit which promises to be
popular with congregations. Attached
to the plimit is a clock, which at the
end of the half hour gives an alarm, ami
if the preacher doseirt end within three
minutes thereafter, down comes the
pulpit with its occupant.
—A soap-kettle exploded at Macomb,
N. Y., one day last week, which is an
other warning*to housekeepers. It used
to he that nothing exploded but steam-
bont'iHiUors and wildcat hands, but now
everything explodes. Even a jug of
buttermilk i
around.
not u safe thing to fool
—A philosopher in America can t get
more that fifty dollars a week for his
work, while a leading negro minstrel can
make five hundred dollars in that time.
And yet when an Englishman happens
to Hf ,y that our tastes arc low, and that
ignorance is gnawing at the vitals of the
republic, the American eagle looks
around for some place where it can get
up and scream.